During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965.

Later, he served overseas as bureau chief or regional manager in Tokyo, Vietnam, Jakarta, New Delhi, Singapore, Moscow, and Los Angeles.

Thirty-three years later, he was decorated with the Bronze Star for helping to rescue a badly wounded soldier while under enemy fire on November 15, 1965, during the Battle of Ia Drang at Landing Zone X-Ray in Vietnam.

[8] A sequel was released in 2008: We Were Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam[9] and Moore and Galloway gave an interview on the book at the Pritzker Military Library on September 17, 2008.

[4][11] Actor Edward Burns portrayed him in the miniseries Vietnam in HD,[12] and Tommy Lee Jones played him in the 2017 film Shock and Awe.

[4][11] Galloway narrated A Flag Between Two Families, a documentary film, based on the events of May 9, 1968, in Vietnam by the members of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry.

[13] In 1991, Galloway received a National Magazine Award for a U.S. News cover article on the Ia Drang battles in Vietnam.

In 1999, Galloway received the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award, along with Gen. Hal Moore, for his journalism and for We Were Soldiers Once and Young at the VVA National Convention in Anaheim, California.

In 2002, Galloway received the Robert Denig Award for Exceptional Service of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Assn.